only if you go for the individual issues. The collected editions are much cheaper, they can be anywhere from 10-30 bucks, but they never really acrue value. So you should always pay cover price. Luckily, all the Star Wars comics get printed by dark horse comics so if you head over to their site (www.darkhorse.com) and browse the star wars comics, you can find all the ones I listed for regular price plus shipping. You can also try amazon.com and barnes&noble.com since they have used book sections on their sites, sometimes you can find trade paperbacks (the collected editions) for less than cover price. But yeah, I strongly reccoment NOT trying to get individual issues if your interest is merely for reading them as it can get very costly. So for your purposes, the Trade Paper Backs are perfect.